BYU: After a Mega Fire, How Are Waterways Impacted by a Wildfire?
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Overview
The UT/Dallas team has successfully developed a fleet of autonomous robots that work together and can rapidly learn the characteristics of environments they had not seen before. The data they collect is comprehensive and streamed immediately, in real time, making it safer and more accurate for disaster teams to quickly determine what solutions are needed to address the problems they face.
Challenge:
In the Western United States, the area of wildfires has more than doubled since the 1970’s and have become larger and more severe. Utah Lake is of concern due to an over-abundance of nutrients that cause harmful algal blooms, a process called eutrophication. Scientists want to understand the process by which the ecosystem naturally renews itself to normal conditions after a wildfire.
Brigham Young University
Solution:
Students collect water samples weekly using Manta+ multiprobes to monitor a burn area of over 200 square miles on and around Mount Nebo in the Spanish Fork watershed. The probes gather key data to learn how these wildfires affect water quality, water flow, what has dissolved in the water, and the amount of sediment moving through the waterways.
Result:
Because it is relatively unknown how these mega fires will affect stream chemistry and water flow, scientists are consistently monitoring the waterways. They use the data they gather to make recommendations to water managers to help them control eutrophication, which can have a negative impact on water quality.
Manta Series Water Quality Probes
Solinst Eureka offers the largest selection of water quality sensor technologies in the industry. So in addition to standard configurations, each probe may be customized for your specific application. Pick sensors of your choice to fully populate larger probes, or add a battery pack to convert a probe to a logging device.
Manta Trimeter Water Quality Probe
The Trimeter holds any one sensor* from the Sensor Parameters list, Plus temperature and depth sensors (both are optional). For example, a Trimeter configuration could be turbidity, temperature, and depth. Another example could be DO and temperature.
EasyProbe: Water Quality Sondes
The EasyProbe, by Solinst Eureka, is a high-performance, cost-effective water quality monitor. It's ideal for spot-checking, remote telemetry, education, research, aquaculture, and more. The EasyProbe20 includes sensors for temperature, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, and pH, while the EasyProbe30 adds a turbidity sensor. Eureka multiprobes are known for their reliability, with a three-year warranty covering all sensors, and have the lowest maintenance costs in the industry.
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